January 18 - 22

WEEKLY HIGHLIGHTS

PRESTON

Preston's favorite thing this week was purchasing the "Overlord Dragon" set with Christmas money from his grandparents and putting it together this week when it arrived.  

We've also been working on putting together a better arrangement for the growing number of Legos.  He helped me design a Lego area for his room and with the help of a friend, we built a new toy room for the kids to play.  It was a really good learning experience from start to finish for all the kids on sorting and donating toys, and designing, constructing, painting shelves and then cleaning and organizing toys.  

MARISSA

Marissa's favorite thing was her tech class this week.  Her Doodle Crate arrived in the mail and she made clay luminaries. She was able to do them without any help at all.  That has been a really good tech class for her this year.  Her luminaries turned out so cute!!

CALEB

Caleb's favorite thing this week was finishing his second "Dick and Jane" book.  He is starting on the third one and then will earn a small Lego set when that goal is complete.  His reading is improving so much and his confidence is growing as well.  

OTHER

LANGUAGE ARTS

Marissa started a story for language arts this week.  She brainstormed what it would be able, the setting, characters, etc.  Then she had to come up with a title for her story and make a title page.  The following day, we worked on her story using narration and my typing skills.  It's a work in progress, but going to be fun if she finishes it.  

Preston had to draw a volcano using pastels as part of his language arts' lesson one day.  He did a pretty good job, but he definitely prefers to do art assignments of his choosing instead of assigned ones.  

NUTRITION

We've been learning a little bit about nutrition, health and cooking.  The kids were being goofballs with their fruit this week so I took a couple pictures to remember these cute kids at this moment in time.  

P.E.

Preston has karate and Marissa has tumbling, but we still try to get outside and keep active the rest of the week.  With the weather so unpredictable this time of year, we try to get out whenever we can.  This week, climbing was our favorite thing! 

TYPING

Typing is a regular part of Preston and Marissa's routine, but this week Marissa decided to quiz herself by filling out the keyboard by memory.  She did an awesome job!